What Independent Theatres do you see Foreign/'Art House' films?
10-16-03, 10:23 AM
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What Independent Theatres do you see Foreign/'Art House' films?
I was just curious to hear from you all what local independent theatres are in your city/town that you frequent that showcase foreign/indie films
Here in DC area, there is
- Visions Bar and Bistro
- The Avalon
- American Film Institute: Silver Theatre (Silver Spring, MD) and National Theatre (Kennedy Center)
- Cinema Arts Theatre (Fairfax Virigina)
- Goethe-Institute (showcasing German cinema)
Museums:
- National Gallery of Art
- Hirshorn
- Freer
Library of Congress - Mary Pickford Theatre
National chains:
Landmark Bethesda (downtown Lincoln Square theatre is planned by Christmas of this year, if not by early 2004)
Cineplex Odeon Dupont, Outer Circle, Shirlington (VA)
Yours?
Here in DC area, there is
- Visions Bar and Bistro
- The Avalon
- American Film Institute: Silver Theatre (Silver Spring, MD) and National Theatre (Kennedy Center)
- Cinema Arts Theatre (Fairfax Virigina)
- Goethe-Institute (showcasing German cinema)
Museums:
- National Gallery of Art
- Hirshorn
- Freer
Library of Congress - Mary Pickford Theatre
National chains:
Landmark Bethesda (downtown Lincoln Square theatre is planned by Christmas of this year, if not by early 2004)
Cineplex Odeon Dupont, Outer Circle, Shirlington (VA)
Yours?
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10-16-03, 10:54 AM
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Gene Siskel Film Center (run by the Art Institute of Chicago)
Definitely the tops in terms of programs and consistency of presentation. They even serve beer at the theater. In addition to numerous programs like Iranian, Asian, Asian American, European, Indian film festivals, they run a lot of older films and retrospectives as well.
Facets Cinematheque
Great, varied programs and picking up what the larger theaters won't touch, or presenting films before they have distribution.
Music Box Theatre
Generally the more publicized foreign and non-mainstream films. They have nice varied weekend matinees. It's a nice old theater, but their presentations are usually fair to poor.
Landmark's Century Centre
Very nice, comfortable theaters that run, like the Music Box, the most popular films of this niche.
Pipers Alley
A lot of smaller films will play here for a week or two before opening wider in the area. Every once in a while they'll get an exclusive picture. Decent theater.
Esquire
For some reason this place gets a lot of Asian fare that won't play anywhere else. Recently I saw the fine Millenium Actress there, so it deserves some props.
Northwestern University Block Cinema
University of Chicago DOC films
Mostly undistributed films or older stuff with some creative programs. Ticket prices ranging from 2 to 6 dollars.
Chicago Filmmakers
I've never seen a film there but they get a lot of the abstract stuff. Unfortunately they had a Brakhage retrospective that I couldn't make.
Gene Siskel Film Center (run by the Art Institute of Chicago)
Definitely the tops in terms of programs and consistency of presentation. They even serve beer at the theater. In addition to numerous programs like Iranian, Asian, Asian American, European, Indian film festivals, they run a lot of older films and retrospectives as well.
Facets Cinematheque
Great, varied programs and picking up what the larger theaters won't touch, or presenting films before they have distribution.
Music Box Theatre
Generally the more publicized foreign and non-mainstream films. They have nice varied weekend matinees. It's a nice old theater, but their presentations are usually fair to poor.
Landmark's Century Centre
Very nice, comfortable theaters that run, like the Music Box, the most popular films of this niche.
Pipers Alley
A lot of smaller films will play here for a week or two before opening wider in the area. Every once in a while they'll get an exclusive picture. Decent theater.
Esquire
For some reason this place gets a lot of Asian fare that won't play anywhere else. Recently I saw the fine Millenium Actress there, so it deserves some props.
Northwestern University Block Cinema
University of Chicago DOC films
Mostly undistributed films or older stuff with some creative programs. Ticket prices ranging from 2 to 6 dollars.
Chicago Filmmakers
I've never seen a film there but they get a lot of the abstract stuff. Unfortunately they had a Brakhage retrospective that I couldn't make.
10-16-03, 11:05 AM
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Back in High School, I was a forty minute drive from Toronto, so me and friends were constantly going up there to check out movies that were never going to play in our home town, or older films at revival theaters, or to catch something at the Film Festival. I loved the Bloor, and would always sit up in the balcony.
Here in Regina, they have an art theater at the local library. It is better than nothing but it is hands down the worst theater in town. Uncomfortible seats and a pretty small screen, primitive sound system. All of which I could overlook but it has the worst theater-goers in the city. You'd think that a person who'd take the trouble to come there to see the weekly 'B&W Gay Cowboy's Eating Pudding subtitled in Swahali' would be interested in watching the movie. Instead they talk-talk-talk through the entire thing. Mostly to let everyone know that they are experts in the art of Cinema. 'Ah ha, that's clearly a reference to Tarkovski's third opus, with it's skillful mis en scene filtered through a Marxist lens'. What abunch of losers. And they get really offended when you ask them to shut up. Blah.
Here in Regina, they have an art theater at the local library. It is better than nothing but it is hands down the worst theater in town. Uncomfortible seats and a pretty small screen, primitive sound system. All of which I could overlook but it has the worst theater-goers in the city. You'd think that a person who'd take the trouble to come there to see the weekly 'B&W Gay Cowboy's Eating Pudding subtitled in Swahali' would be interested in watching the movie. Instead they talk-talk-talk through the entire thing. Mostly to let everyone know that they are experts in the art of Cinema. 'Ah ha, that's clearly a reference to Tarkovski's third opus, with it's skillful mis en scene filtered through a Marxist lens'. What abunch of losers. And they get really offended when you ask them to shut up. Blah.
10-16-03, 11:42 AM
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Souther California Region:
Nuart (see above)
American Cinemateque at the Egyptian Theater- just down from the Chinese and El Capitan, this non-profit is like the Gene Siskel center or the Film Forum. All the best traveling retrospectives, lease events, and their own festivals. Powel and Presburger retrospectives, nitrate festivals, 3-D film festival, film noir film festival, anime film festival... bottom line this place rules
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - ocassionally scores some great programs including Terry Gilliam in person
New Beverly - Last and greatest revival house in LA
Bay Theatre in Seal Beach - great revivals of popular films from the past (comming soon The Wolf Man with LC, jr.)
University 6 near UCI campus - First run art house with some of the worst presentation in the world. Bad sound, framed improperly. The place charges a fortune and gives the least. Total suck a thon, but sometimes it's the only place to see these films.
Lido Newport Beach - old theater from 1939, first run art house, their screen sucks.
Nuart (see above)
American Cinemateque at the Egyptian Theater- just down from the Chinese and El Capitan, this non-profit is like the Gene Siskel center or the Film Forum. All the best traveling retrospectives, lease events, and their own festivals. Powel and Presburger retrospectives, nitrate festivals, 3-D film festival, film noir film festival, anime film festival... bottom line this place rules
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - ocassionally scores some great programs including Terry Gilliam in person
New Beverly - Last and greatest revival house in LA
Bay Theatre in Seal Beach - great revivals of popular films from the past (comming soon The Wolf Man with LC, jr.)
University 6 near UCI campus - First run art house with some of the worst presentation in the world. Bad sound, framed improperly. The place charges a fortune and gives the least. Total suck a thon, but sometimes it's the only place to see these films.
Lido Newport Beach - old theater from 1939, first run art house, their screen sucks.
10-16-03, 11:58 AM
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Hillcrest Theater - affiliated with the Ken below but a much nicer theater. Shows current run Independant movies rather than classics. There are about 6 screens all showing independant or foreign movies at any given time. For example it showed Whale Rider.
Ken Theater- Older no-frills theater with a monthly calander that shows a wide variety of movies, mostly cult/classic movies. For example this is the theater that ran a Kurosawa film festival and also recently screened The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
Museum of Photographic arts - Smaller, comfortable, apparantly digital projection theater. They often run movies that were recently released on DVD but not always. For example I recently saw Cabaret and All that Jazz. They also sometimes have themes. The current theme is surrealism in movies. The current calander includes several Brunuel movies and will be showing Polanski's Repulsion on Halloween night. I like this theater a lot as it located in Balboa Park and is adjacent to the very good restaurant there (Prado). It makes a nice date to have dinner at the Prado on the terrace and then pop over to the theater for a double feature of something good.
Hillcrest Theater - affiliated with the Ken below but a much nicer theater. Shows current run Independant movies rather than classics. There are about 6 screens all showing independant or foreign movies at any given time. For example it showed Whale Rider.
Ken Theater- Older no-frills theater with a monthly calander that shows a wide variety of movies, mostly cult/classic movies. For example this is the theater that ran a Kurosawa film festival and also recently screened The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
Museum of Photographic arts - Smaller, comfortable, apparantly digital projection theater. They often run movies that were recently released on DVD but not always. For example I recently saw Cabaret and All that Jazz. They also sometimes have themes. The current theme is surrealism in movies. The current calander includes several Brunuel movies and will be showing Polanski's Repulsion on Halloween night. I like this theater a lot as it located in Balboa Park and is adjacent to the very good restaurant there (Prado). It makes a nice date to have dinner at the Prado on the terrace and then pop over to the theater for a double feature of something good.
10-16-03, 12:39 PM
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Las Vegas: Village Square
Los Angeles: The Nuart (This was a 2nd home for me when I lived in LA)
San Francisco: The Castro (If you've never seen a silent movie in a real silent era theater, this is the place to go)
Los Angeles: The Nuart (This was a 2nd home for me when I lived in LA)
San Francisco: The Castro (If you've never seen a silent movie in a real silent era theater, this is the place to go)
10-16-03, 12:40 PM
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Originally posted by chente
Museum of Photographic arts - Smaller, comfortable, apparantly digital projection theater. They often run movies that were recently released on DVD but not always. For example I recently saw Cabaret and All that Jazz. They also sometimes have themes. The current theme is surrealism in movies. The current calander includes several Brunuel movies and will be showing Polanski's Repulsion on Halloween night. I like this theater a lot as it located in Balboa Park and is adjacent to the very good restaurant there (Prado). It makes a nice date to have dinner at the Prado on the terrace and then pop over to the theater for a double feature of something good.
Museum of Photographic arts - Smaller, comfortable, apparantly digital projection theater. They often run movies that were recently released on DVD but not always. For example I recently saw Cabaret and All that Jazz. They also sometimes have themes. The current theme is surrealism in movies. The current calander includes several Brunuel movies and will be showing Polanski's Repulsion on Halloween night. I like this theater a lot as it located in Balboa Park and is adjacent to the very good restaurant there (Prado). It makes a nice date to have dinner at the Prado on the terrace and then pop over to the theater for a double feature of something good.
10-16-03, 01:16 PM
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South Florida
The closest thing I've found to a movie that will play indie and/or foreign flicks thus far has been Sunrise Cinemas. Only found it just recently, and I've only seen one flick there (and a mainstream one at that: School of Rock). The S.C. near me has small theaters, and the sound was sort of quiet, but at least the crowd was too.
www.sunrisecinemas.com
Anyone else in S. Florida know of anything else?
The closest thing I've found to a movie that will play indie and/or foreign flicks thus far has been Sunrise Cinemas. Only found it just recently, and I've only seen one flick there (and a mainstream one at that: School of Rock). The S.C. near me has small theaters, and the sound was sort of quiet, but at least the crowd was too.
www.sunrisecinemas.com
Anyone else in S. Florida know of anything else?
10-16-03, 02:13 PM
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The Wexner Center Film & Video Theater on the OSU campus. Once in a while I'll see a movie at either the Drexel Theater or the Drexel Grandview, but most of the movies they show are too mainstream for my tastes.
10-16-03, 02:30 PM
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Honolulu:
Varsity Theatre ( 2 screens. Closing soon)
Art House at Restaurant Row (8 screens)
Occasionally a screen or 2:
Signature Dole Cannery Theatres (Hawaii International Film Festival there 10/30 - 11/9.)
Varsity Theatre ( 2 screens. Closing soon)
Art House at Restaurant Row (8 screens)
Occasionally a screen or 2:
Signature Dole Cannery Theatres (Hawaii International Film Festival there 10/30 - 11/9.)
10-16-03, 04:26 PM
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When in Tampa: The Tampa Theatre, it's freakin' amazing.
In Des Moines: The Fleur, followed by the Varsity, followed by the Sierra. If a film is at the Fleur and Varsity though, I'll pick the Varsity, I like to support single screen theaters.
In Des Moines: The Fleur, followed by the Varsity, followed by the Sierra. If a film is at the Fleur and Varsity though, I'll pick the Varsity, I like to support single screen theaters.
10-16-03, 04:30 PM
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San Francisco: The Castro (If you've never seen a silent movie in a real silent era theater, this is the place to go)
San Francisco: The Castro (If you've never seen a silent movie in a real silent era theater, this is the place to go)
10-16-03, 09:05 PM
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well here in Philadelphia, there are the 3 Ritz Theaters in the Old City area of center city.......and I also go to The Bala Theater in Bala Cynwyd.
10-17-03, 07:40 AM
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Here in Nashville, we have The Belcourt and The Green Hills Cinema (a cineplex that devotes three of it's smaller auditoriums to indie and foreign films).
10-17-03, 11:50 AM
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In Orlando there is the Enzian, which also hosts the Florida Film Festival each year in the early summer. On that note, does anyone know of any art house theatres in the Ocala/Gainesville area? Just moved there and not to familiar yet.
10-17-03, 06:48 PM
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Minneapolis: Landmark Uptown and Lagoon theatres
Minneapolis: Landmark Uptown and Lagoon theatres
Mush more interesting fare can be seen at The U Film Society, over at the Bell museum. Run by Al Milgrom (sp?) a local legend here in Minnesota.
Also there's the Oak Street Cinema, which does many fine retrospectives - old hollywood, and foreign films. Great place to see a film.